Uniting the arts to stage the nation: Le Sueur’s Ossian (1804) in Napoleonic Paris
This article argues that the early nineteenth century was a critical period in the development of operatic aesthetics in France: fuelled by post-Revolutionary notions about theatre's importance in processes of nation-building, the Opéra sought to strengthen its reputation as the ‘Académie that...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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